Volume V. Voice: underlined means that a a full or partial recording is available on this website.
Fach, sex, & key may be changed as long as appropriate to the music.
Book Ia. Story Cycles: Low Voice & Medium Orchestra:
1. Orpheus in The Underworld: Boethius (in Latin); 14.5 minutes; 7 songs; piano, orch, or perc., timp. & str..
2. Remembrance of Love's Death: Emily Dickenson (u.c.); 16 minute & 20 seconds: 12 songs; piano or orch.
Book Ib: Song Cycles with Low Voice & Orchestra:
1. Wondering: Charles Schultz (u.c.) & e. e. cummings (u.c.); 7.5 minutes; very low voice & pno.,or str. orch or D.B. str. quart..
2. Cascando: Samuel Beckett (u.c.) 12.5 minutes; 4 songs for low voice with piano or hrp., & str. quart. or hrp., orch. & perc.
3a. Rain: James Joyce: 13.5 minute; 6 songs; low dramatic voice & piano or med. orch.
3b. Rain: James Joyce: 14 minutes & 40 seconds; 7 songs for medium low lyric voice & piano.
4. Excerpts from "The Journey": James Joyce; 19 minutes; piano, synthesizer, or orch.
Book Ic: Spiritual Settings, for Voice & Orchestra:
1. When The Stars Begin To Fall: 13 minutes; 8 spirituals for high voice; piano or orch.
2. Deep River: 18 minutes; 8 spirituals for low voice, piano or orch.
Book II. Two Voices with Instruments:
1. Yes: e. e. cummings (u.c.); 45 minutes & 15 seconds; 4 songs; two high voices & clarinet or English horn.
2. A Thought & 3 Folk Songs: Emily Dickinson (u.c.) & anon; 9 minutes for high & low voice with flute & guitar.
Book III: Solo Voice with Instruments:
Book IIIa: High Voice with Instruments:
1, Echoes: Hart Crane; 2.5 minutes; high soprano (or lyric soprano) & viola.
2a. Serenade and Fugue: Thomas Hardy; 4. 5 minutes; soprano & flute.
2b. A Secret and a Prayer: Ann Head (u.c.); 1 minute & 40 seconds; soprano & flute.
3a. Diptych: unknown poet; 9 minutes & 50 seconds; 2 songs & interlude with flute, clarinet, bassoon & piano.
3b. Diptych: for flute, bassoon and piano (withheld).
4. Six Valentine's Day Cards: 9 minutes; Emily Dickinson; with flute, harp & piano.
5. Some Things That Fly: Emily Dickinson; 7 "things" in 10 minutes; soprano, flute & guitar.
6. Simples of The Moon: James Joyce; 13 minutes and 40 seconds; 5 songs; soprano, flute & viola.
7. Echo and Mirage: Christina Rosetti; 12 minutes & 40 seconds; 3 songs with fl. cl. marimba, hrp. pno. vla. vc., & opt. perc.
8. 4 Orphic Hymns: tr. by Thomas Taylor; 19.5 minutes; with clarinet & guitar.
Book IIIb: Low Voice with Instruments:
1. Echo's Bones: Samuel Beckett (u.c.); 6 minutes & 45 seconds; 5 songs with 'cello.
2. The Conqueror Worm: Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia"; 12 minutes; 6 songs with violin.
3. The Unbroken Circle: 8 spiritual settings; 14.5 minutes; very low voice, with violoncello & double bass with opt. percussion.
Book IV: Voice and Piano: Please see Book I above for additional works for voice and piano:
Book IVa: High Voice with Piano:
1. Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Monaemon Amijima): Chikamatsu (in Japanese); 3 minutes; soprano. (withheld).
2. Three Short Songs: Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 4 minutes; high voice.
3. When The Heart is Full of Love: Anon; 7.5 - 10.5 minutes; (from "Masque of the Witches"); high voice.
4. The Steeple's Remembrance: Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 10 songs; 12 minutes; high voice.
Book IVb. Low Voice with Piano:
1. Three Very Short Songs: Emily Dickinson (u.c.): 1 minute & 25 seconds.
2. Last Murmurs of Ligeia: Edgar Allan Poe; 3.5 minutes; 3 songs.
3. Three Portraits: William Butler Yeats, Linda Cecil (u.c.); & Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 6 minutes.
4. 6 Blake Songs (Songs of Summer); William Blake; 10 minutes.
5. Chamber Music: James Joyce; 10 minutes; 5 songs for lyric voice.
6. Great Streets of Silence: Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 11 minutes & 50 seconds
Book V: Unaccompanied Voice: The key may be changed, as long as it is appropriate to do so.
Book IVa: High Voice:
1. Dachshund: poem by Jill Shapiro (u.c.); 45 seconds.
2. Mother Goose Songs: Mother Goose (1919); 3 minutes & 15 seconds.
3. Night over Bass Rocks: James Joyce; 4 minutes & 40 seconds; 3 songs.
4. Cal'mus: Walt Whitman from "The Leaves of Grass"; 6.5 minutes; 4 gay love songs for tenor or baritone.
1 Book Vb. Unaccompanied Low Voice:
1. A Tree: Joyce Kilmer; 1 minute.
2. The Book of Runes: 3 cycles of contemporary plain song to pomes by James Joyce.
I. Three Whole Tone Songs: 4.5 minutes;
II. Four Songs of Rejection and Hope: 5.5 minutes;
III. The Cool Valley: 17 minutes; story cycle with 13 songs.
Fach, sex, & key may be changed as long as appropriate to the music.
Book Ia. Story Cycles: Low Voice & Medium Orchestra:
1. Orpheus in The Underworld: Boethius (in Latin); 14.5 minutes; 7 songs; piano, orch, or perc., timp. & str..
2. Remembrance of Love's Death: Emily Dickenson (u.c.); 16 minute & 20 seconds: 12 songs; piano or orch.
Book Ib: Song Cycles with Low Voice & Orchestra:
1. Wondering: Charles Schultz (u.c.) & e. e. cummings (u.c.); 7.5 minutes; very low voice & pno.,or str. orch or D.B. str. quart..
2. Cascando: Samuel Beckett (u.c.) 12.5 minutes; 4 songs for low voice with piano or hrp., & str. quart. or hrp., orch. & perc.
3a. Rain: James Joyce: 13.5 minute; 6 songs; low dramatic voice & piano or med. orch.
3b. Rain: James Joyce: 14 minutes & 40 seconds; 7 songs for medium low lyric voice & piano.
4. Excerpts from "The Journey": James Joyce; 19 minutes; piano, synthesizer, or orch.
Book Ic: Spiritual Settings, for Voice & Orchestra:
1. When The Stars Begin To Fall: 13 minutes; 8 spirituals for high voice; piano or orch.
2. Deep River: 18 minutes; 8 spirituals for low voice, piano or orch.
Book II. Two Voices with Instruments:
1. Yes: e. e. cummings (u.c.); 45 minutes & 15 seconds; 4 songs; two high voices & clarinet or English horn.
2. A Thought & 3 Folk Songs: Emily Dickinson (u.c.) & anon; 9 minutes for high & low voice with flute & guitar.
Book III: Solo Voice with Instruments:
Book IIIa: High Voice with Instruments:
1, Echoes: Hart Crane; 2.5 minutes; high soprano (or lyric soprano) & viola.
2a. Serenade and Fugue: Thomas Hardy; 4. 5 minutes; soprano & flute.
2b. A Secret and a Prayer: Ann Head (u.c.); 1 minute & 40 seconds; soprano & flute.
3a. Diptych: unknown poet; 9 minutes & 50 seconds; 2 songs & interlude with flute, clarinet, bassoon & piano.
3b. Diptych: for flute, bassoon and piano (withheld).
4. Six Valentine's Day Cards: 9 minutes; Emily Dickinson; with flute, harp & piano.
5. Some Things That Fly: Emily Dickinson; 7 "things" in 10 minutes; soprano, flute & guitar.
6. Simples of The Moon: James Joyce; 13 minutes and 40 seconds; 5 songs; soprano, flute & viola.
7. Echo and Mirage: Christina Rosetti; 12 minutes & 40 seconds; 3 songs with fl. cl. marimba, hrp. pno. vla. vc., & opt. perc.
8. 4 Orphic Hymns: tr. by Thomas Taylor; 19.5 minutes; with clarinet & guitar.
Book IIIb: Low Voice with Instruments:
1. Echo's Bones: Samuel Beckett (u.c.); 6 minutes & 45 seconds; 5 songs with 'cello.
2. The Conqueror Worm: Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia"; 12 minutes; 6 songs with violin.
3. The Unbroken Circle: 8 spiritual settings; 14.5 minutes; very low voice, with violoncello & double bass with opt. percussion.
Book IV: Voice and Piano: Please see Book I above for additional works for voice and piano:
Book IVa: High Voice with Piano:
1. Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Monaemon Amijima): Chikamatsu (in Japanese); 3 minutes; soprano. (withheld).
2. Three Short Songs: Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 4 minutes; high voice.
3. When The Heart is Full of Love: Anon; 7.5 - 10.5 minutes; (from "Masque of the Witches"); high voice.
4. The Steeple's Remembrance: Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 10 songs; 12 minutes; high voice.
Book IVb. Low Voice with Piano:
1. Three Very Short Songs: Emily Dickinson (u.c.): 1 minute & 25 seconds.
2. Last Murmurs of Ligeia: Edgar Allan Poe; 3.5 minutes; 3 songs.
3. Three Portraits: William Butler Yeats, Linda Cecil (u.c.); & Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 6 minutes.
4. 6 Blake Songs (Songs of Summer); William Blake; 10 minutes.
5. Chamber Music: James Joyce; 10 minutes; 5 songs for lyric voice.
6. Great Streets of Silence: Emily Dickinson (u.c.); 11 minutes & 50 seconds
Book V: Unaccompanied Voice: The key may be changed, as long as it is appropriate to do so.
Book IVa: High Voice:
1. Dachshund: poem by Jill Shapiro (u.c.); 45 seconds.
2. Mother Goose Songs: Mother Goose (1919); 3 minutes & 15 seconds.
3. Night over Bass Rocks: James Joyce; 4 minutes & 40 seconds; 3 songs.
4. Cal'mus: Walt Whitman from "The Leaves of Grass"; 6.5 minutes; 4 gay love songs for tenor or baritone.
1 Book Vb. Unaccompanied Low Voice:
1. A Tree: Joyce Kilmer; 1 minute.
2. The Book of Runes: 3 cycles of contemporary plain song to pomes by James Joyce.
I. Three Whole Tone Songs: 4.5 minutes;
II. Four Songs of Rejection and Hope: 5.5 minutes;
III. The Cool Valley: 17 minutes; story cycle with 13 songs.